NationStates Jolt Archive


Roswell

Wilgrove
26-11-2007, 06:37
In July of 1947, a farmer in Roswell New Mexico found what he claims to be a UFO wreckage. Soon after the Air Force came out and at first backed up the claim that it was a UFO crash. However it soon retracted the story and claim that it was a weather balloon that was being used for a top secret project. The Air Force claims that it was Project Mogul, which was to detect radioactive fallout that comes from the USSR. Those who believe that Roswell was a UFO crash also talks about body being found at the scene, in which the Air Force claim that they were test dummies. So, what did happen at Roswell. Was it a UFO crash or did a weather balloon crash?

As for me, I would have to say I don't know. I mean the odds that it was just a weather balloon rather than a alien space craft is bigger. But what would a weather balloon that's supposed to be carrying a device to detect nuclear fallout have to do with dropping test dummies from high altitudes? There are people who have come out and say it was a UFO crash, but they do this 60 years later, and who can really remember things with crystal clarity after 60 years? So was it a UFO crash, maybe. Was it a weather balloon, maybe, I don't know and I probably won't until I'm presented with hard evidence for either side.
Barringtonia
26-11-2007, 06:46
My bet is that it was a military exercise, the first response was to blame it on aliens until someone higher up, or possibly lower down, thought 'aliens is a stupid cover story, seriously' and that's when they decided on the eminently more feasible excuse of a weather balloon.

It was probably a jet plane piece from some crash.
Wilgrove
26-11-2007, 06:48
My bet is that it was a military exercise, the first response was to blame it on aliens until someone higher up, or possibly lower down, thought 'aliens is a stupid cover story, seriously' and that's when they decided on the eminently more feasible excuse of a weather balloon.

It was probably a jet plane piece from some crash.

That would explain the claim of more than one Roswell crash site.
Kyronea
26-11-2007, 07:23
Eh, as Barringtonia said, it was just a military test gone wrong and someone goofed with the cover story. And like with certain other goofs and mistakes(such as the scientists who took the picture of the "face" on Mars showing the picture to the public as a joke) it just kept going and going and people made a market out of it.

Ah well. At least it improved the economy a little.